datatonic - Senior AI Architect (Google Cloud)
Requirements
• Technical Expertise: • AI & Agentic Systems: Proven experience designing, solutioning, and deploying agentic platforms and AI systems into production. Deep understanding of AI evaluation methodologies and guardrail implementations. • Frameworks & Tools: Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (Google ADK, LangGraph), LLMs (Gemini, Claude, open-source), cloud and database architecture (Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Postgres), and AI security & observability (OpenTelemetry, guardrails, LLM gateways). • Data & Workload Orchestration: Mastery of data preparation strategies for AI workloads, data acquisition, and orchestration frameworks for both data and AI pipelines. • Platform Architecture: Strong background in either Data Platform Infrastructure or Full-Stack Application Architecture (with high awareness of application design and UX principles). • Enterprise Fundamentals: Advanced proficiency in cloud security, networking, and production deployment environments. • Proven Delivery Track Record: Prior hands-on experience building and deploying platforms • Stakeholder Leadership: Strong presentation capabilities with a demonstrated history of advising senior client stakeholders. • Adaptability & Ownership: Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities under tight timelines (e.g., 4-week design sprints), and take absolute ownership of project outcomes. • Hands-on experience within Google Cloud (GCP) environments. • Background working within high-growth startups, scale-ups, or modern enterprise transformation environments.
Responsibilities
• Architecture & Delivery: Design and build data platforms, full-stack application architectures, and agentic AI platforms from initial discovery through to production deployment. • Technical Ownership: Own the end-to-end technical design of complex projects, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, and aligned with client business objectives. • Pre-Sales & Scoping: Conduct technical scoping during client intake, support account growth, and design viable technical solutions without losing connection to hands-on execution. • Client & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical interface for client-side CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Transformation Leaders; translate complex technical architectures into clear, non-technical business strategy. • Infrastructure Strategy: Define and implement strategies across networking, data acquisition, security, guardrails, and AI/data workload orchestration. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with internal delivery leads, AI/data engineers, and commercial teams to drive cohesive project execution.
Benefits
• End-to-End Impact: Drive the full lifecycle of cutting-edge platforms - from pre-sales and strategy to active deployment in production. • Engineering-First Culture: Work within an architecture group embedded alongside senior and principal engineers, focusing on real execution rather than static slide decks. • Next-Gen AI Exposure: Lead the industry in designing scalable AI agents, evaluation systems, and production guardrails. • Direct Stakeholder Influence: Shape customer transformation strategies by directly connecting technical architecture to business value. • We believe in empowering our team to thrive, with benefits including: • Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (obviously!) • Health Perks: Private health insurance (Vitality Health) and Smart Health Services • Fitness & Wellbeing: 50% gym membership discounts (Nuffield Health, Virgin Active, Pure Gym). • Hybrid Model: A WFH allowance to keep you comfortable. • Learning & Growth: Access to platforms like Udemy to fuel your curiosity. • Pension: (Auto-enrollment after probation period. 3% employer contributions raising 1% per year of service to a max of 10%) • Life Insurance: (3 x your base salary!) • Income Protection: (up to 75% of base salary, up to 2 years) • Tusker Green Car Scheme • Cycle to Work Scheme • Are you ready to make an impact?
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